NGINX Simplifies the Journey to Microservices

NGINX,
Inc., the company based on the popular open source project and offering
a suite of technologies designed to develop and deliver modern
applications, today announced new capabilities and major enhancements to
its Application Platform – an integrated suite of software technologies
that simplify the adoption and deployment of microservices.

Enterprise adoption of microservices has reached a tipping point. More
than half of companies in a recent survey indicated they deployed
microservices for at least one application, and 26% are doing so in
production.* Companies are looking to microservices as a modern
application architecture to support digital business efforts. However,
the transition to microservices is complex and requires enterprises to
balance development and delivery across a mix of legacy, monolithic
applications and newer, open-sourced based microservices environments.

“Digital transformation makes application modernization imperative for
enterprises. Most popular, modern apps are created by cloud-native
companies using predominantly open source technologies,” says Gus
Robertson, CEO, NGINX. “However, enterprises struggle to implement these
same technologies to create compelling customer experiences. To cross
this digital divide, enterprises must adopt a microservices architecture
that complements their legacy applications. We believe NGINX has the
technology to accelerate their journey into microservices.”

NGINX is one of the most ubiquitous software technologies for modern
application architectures. More than 11 million new domains launch on
NGINX open source each month, an average of 4 every second. Users have
pulled a billion NGINX instances from the Docker Store, including over a
million pulls of the NGINX Kubernetes Ingress controller. With this
footprint, NGINX has established a leadership position in enterprises
adoption of microservices. More than 3 million NGINX instances and 250
customers are deployed in production microservices environments.

New control-plane solution to manage both legacy and microservices
apps. NGINX Controller R1 (available Q2, 2018) introduces new
monitoring dashboards, alerting, and management of NGINX software. The
Controller architecture is extensible and designed to integrate
additional control-plane solutions like Istio, eliminating the need
for enterprises to deploy multiple frameworks to manage a service mesh.

New data-plane features to simplify the microservices application
stack. NGINX Plus R15 (available April 10, 2018) builds on new
HTTP/2, gRPC, and JavaScript open source features with
high-availability clustering and OpenID Connect enhancements. These
improve performance and simplify microservices stacks where NGINX runs
as a web server, load balancer, API gateway, Kubernetes Ingress
controller, or sidecar proxy.

New app server to improve performance for modern microservices
code. NGINX Unit 1.0 (available April 12, 2018) is a
production-ready open source app server. Unit simplifies microservices
deployments by supporting multiple languages in a single server,
including Go, Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby. Unit is a
developer-friendly, high performance architecture that dynamically
configures via an API.

With well-tested products and proven success, NGINX offers enterprises
the technologies and expertise at every stage of their journey toward a
fully implemented microservices architecture.

About NGINX, Inc.
NGINX, Inc. is the company behind the
popular open source project trusted by more than 450 million sites. We
offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern
applications. The NGINX Application platform allows enterprises
undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic
applications as well as deliver new, microservices-based applications.
Companies like Netflix, Starbucks, and McDonalds rely on NGINX to reduce
costs, improve resiliency, and speed innovation.

We are headquartered in San Francisco, with our EMEA head office in
Cork, Ireland and APAC head office in Singapore. Learn more at https://www.nginx.com/